The staggering level of Clinton-hatred necessary to believe that this rapist was innocent, thus, implying the victim was a liar–in spite of various women who also claiming to have been victims and pleading with Huckabee not to release him–is staggering. My God, Dumond even admitted to one vicious rape of a mother while her toddler slept next to her! The callous disregard for the victims and future victims belies his facade of “compassion” for human life. Not to mention him flatly lying that he did not lobby hard for this rapist’s release.

What’s worse, that he done it, or that he tried to hide what he done. I felt physically ill when I read that story. If politically motivated (distance cousin…), he’s a heartless sick SOB (Huckabee that is). Or, based on some other articles, does he just have a low opinion of women. He didn’t listen to the victims, just his base (sound familiar). He let a sick vicious rapist out to rape and kill. If he can’t get that right. Ay Crumba!

This Dumond creep: Was he”born-again” perchance?
I have to ask (not that you necessarily know the answer, but as something I’d like to know if anyone has looked into it): What role, if any, does religious conversion play in parole decisions and other opportunities for leniency?

Hey, are there any other liberals who, upon initially hearing about this Dumond accusation, reflexively dismissed the charge as a typical partisan attack? After seeing the details, I’m pretty disgusted by Huckabee like the rest of you guys, but the fact that i had instinctively rushed to Huckabee’s defense kind of unsettles me. I hate almost all of this guy’s policy stances, yet he’s so ‘goshdarn’ likable that I give him the same benefit of the doubt that I give to all my democrat brothers and sisters. Huckabee is the candidate I’m most scared of in the general election.

Huckabee has a very warm way of communicating and presenting himself in public (very much as a pastor might adopt and unwary people might find reassuring), and I think that accounts for much of his recent surge in the polls. But in a number of ways he is disrespectful of women and their civil rights and liberties. Not that the other Republican candidates are vastly superior in that respect.

I am always wary when someone speaks of some social structure with more reverence than they speak of people and living creatures. Structures have no feelings. People matter more than “families” or “marriage”, etc.

# 2-“None of us could’ve predicted what [Dumond] could’ve done when he got out.”

If nothing else, Huckabee does seem to have the standard GOP script down.

Just like nobody could have predicted the insurgency if we invaded Iraq and nobody could have predicted the result of deregulation bringing about the sub-prime mortgage fiasco. Soon we’ll be seeing that no one could have predicted the deterioration in American education as a result of “no child left behind.”